Code of Silence Page #14

EDDIE:

We talking about a bribe, Scalese?

SCALESE:

It's a prediction.

Another beautiful bikinied girl comes by and gives Scalese a

tall cool drink.

SCALESE:

No. I wouldn't try to bribe Eddie

Cusack.

He drops the name with a smile. Eddie doesn't react.

SCALESE:

You're incorruptible. Untarnished. I

hear they call you stainless steel

on the street. Me, I think you're a

f***in' pain in the ass.

EDDIE:

Thanks.

SCALESE:

(frowning)

It's not a compliment.

EDDIE:

I'm looking for your nephew.

SCALESE:

Tony? Forget it. Tony Luna's none of

your business.

EDDIE:

Wrong. Tony just made himself my

business.

SCALESE:

No he didn't. We take care of our

own. Just like the cops. Just like

the Comachos. You understand.

Eddie sits down next to Scalese and looks him in the eye.

EDDIE:

He sh*t on my turf, old man. And I'm

going to nail him and anybody else

tied to him. You understand, Felix?

SCALESE:

(with cool rage)

Nobody threatens Felix Scalese.

EDDIE:

(softly)

It's not a threat. It's a prediction.

On the shore, Kosalas is honking the car horn to get Eddie's

attention. Eddie rises.

EDDIE:

There's a shitstorm coming. You better

get yourself a good umbrella.

The girl at the computer terminal watches him leave.

EXT. YACHT - DAY

Eddie walks by as Rocco, soaking wet, is pulling himself

from the water. Eddie pushes him into the water again.

Kosalas is still sounding the HORN.

EXT. HARBOR - DAY

Eddie runs toward the car.

EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY

A body lies in the flowers in the service area next to the

giant greenhouse. Several unmarked cars and two blue and

whites are parked in the dirt drive as Eddie and Kosalas

pull up. The cops have roped off the area. Music and Brennan

are there.

Eddie looks at the body as Music comes over.

MUSIC:

Tony Luna's bagman.

Kosalas looks at the body.

MUSIC:

They call that a Columbian necktie.

Kosalas winces.

MUSIC:

They found the manager of Tony's

restaurant hanging from a hook in

his kitchen. Looked like someone

tried to carve a canoe out of him.

Tony's used car lot on Ashland is

burning as we speak. The head salesman

is a fried zuccini.

KOSALAS:

Oh Jesus. It's starting.

Eddie stands to one side.

EDDIE:

Let's go.

EXT. LUNA'S STREET - DAY

A kid on a bike makes his way up the quiet tree-lined street,

tossing newspapers onto the porches of the block.

Around the corner at the end of the block, the produce truck

starts slowly forward. As it turns onto Luna's block, a car

pulls up behind it and stops, blocking the street.

The produce truck parks at the curb in front of the Luna

house. A neighbor from across the street approaches. The

front door of Luna's house opens, and Tito emerges, helping

Tony's aged mother down the steps to buy vegetables.

INT. PRODUCE TRUCK - DAY

On the floor near the wheelwell is the dead produce man.

EXT. LUNA'S STREET - DAY

The rear doors of the produce truck swing open. The neighbor,

Tito, and Tony's mother are instantly killed.

From outside three Comachos enter the open front door of the

Luna house. We hear the SOUND of MUFFLED GUNFIRE from inside.

INT. LUNA'S HOUSE - DAY

Bits and pieces. A Shattered orange juice container. Eggs

cooking on the stove. A woman's vanity.

On the floor; a woman's legs, a housecoat, slippers. A

silhouette of a Comacho in the hallway RAKING one of Tony's

guards.

A family photo on the mantle which includes Diana and her

father is BLASTED to bits.

EXT. LUNA'S BACK YARD - DAY

One of Tony's men tries to escape through the back of the

house. He is pursued by a Comacho who guns him down.

EXT. LUNA'S STREET - DAY

Luis Comacho sits in a car in the next block surveying the

scene. The cousins are walking briskly out. They jump in a

car and drive off.

INT. LUIS' CAR - DAY

Luis nods to his driver. They pull away.

EXT. LUNA'S STREET - DAY

The street is QUIET again. Next door, a neighbor, wearing

only his underpants and carrying an old pistol, stands

trembling in disbelief.

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